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Post by raptorman on Jan 27, 2010 17:21:19 GMT -5
*Las Vegas*
The lord and lady looked at Master Zero. They were begining to get tired of his rudeness and his arrogance. One or the other they could live with but this was truly getting under even their thick skins. Simon opened his mouth as if to speak then closed it again as star arrived. He and Rebecca watched as the pink haired girl and Quicksilver began to trade insults.
They were about to intervene again when another arrival showed up. This one simply appeared as well but with no distinct energy used in his appearance. He simply faded in. The lord and lady glanced at him. He was tall and garbed in elegant flowing robes of black and silver. His skin had a slight blue tint and his face was narrow and sorrowful, while at the same time seeming to be offering condolences.
He spoke to the lord and lady, "Greetings, I believe you called me here as well?" A faint hint of despair echoed in his voice as he spoke and bowed in greeting. "I am Zaltias lord of the Immortal despair, and is that the chosen of him over there too?"
The Lady nodded, "That is Star Peacefire, the others are Master Zero and Quicksilver, We are the lord and lady of the vrael. I think you know why we called, everyone with power is needed to fight this foe who descends upon us. You we expect to be very useful." What the lady didn't add was that in truth Zaltias was meant to be a distraction for aloraster.
Zaltias nodded and then cracked his long narrow fingers. "Well then we had best get started." he muttered to himself then spoke louder, a voice with echoing power to it. "We have more important things to do that fight each other, as you can see I do not attack one who would normally be a sworn enemy of mine."
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Post by Ninmast on Jan 31, 2010 19:17:29 GMT -5
Star arched an eyebrow at the claim of the newcomer. "Oh, so you're the self-proclaimed God of Emo, huh?" she asked sourly. "Why don't you just go back home under whatever rock you crawled out from under and go back to cutting yourself?"
"Agreed," Master Zero put in, he and Quicksilver completely immune to the aura of depression surrounding the man. "I can tell right now he's just going to be dead weight, and that's the last thing we need."
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Post by raptorman on Jan 31, 2010 19:36:27 GMT -5
Zaltias bristled for a moment at what star said. His face contorted into a scowl and he replied. " I am the font of despair. I am not a pathetic fool who cuts himself because he cannot withstand what I have created and feed upon. But no matter. You do not want aid, then I will not give it too you. Foolish mortal, even you will grow old and die. I never will." Zaltias laughed and then his elegant form simply vanished.
The lord and lady looked at each other. The situation was less than ideal, and they had originally planned to use the lord of despair as a distraction. It didn't seem like that would work anymore. They shared thoughts for a moment as Zaltias faded out and then the Lord spoke up himself.
"We have called you here because we face a threat to the safety of earth, a threat to all life that lives upon this world. Aloraster, Lord of the Founders is coming to consume the planet. Master Zero and Quicksilver already know this but you might not." He turned towards Star as he spoke. "You we know have fought Aloraster's minions and inquisitors already. But what you don't know is what Aloraster himself is. He is not truly part of the multiverse. He is from outside and he destroyed our worlds long ago. Now as you know he is coming here. We must prepare for the fight with him. We have brought together many of the powerful and together we must crush him as he descends to this world."
He paused for a moment as if to catch his breath after his rather long winded speech, then he continued. "We believe that this place is as good as any to confront aloraster, as there is little life here and he will not be able to pull much from earth itself as he first descends. Now we would like to figure out a plan for once he arrives. Any suggestions?"
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Post by Ninmast on Jan 31, 2010 23:43:20 GMT -5
"Idiot," Star told Zaltias flatly as he began to fade away. "Why don't you come back in a few centuries and we can count each other's wrinkles?"
Star turned her head back to listen to the lord's words in detail before speaking. "Actually, this is kind of a small gathering. There's a lot more of us somewhere."
"Yeah," Quicksilver agreed. "And aren't we missing the stereotypical villain ally of convenience?"
"Hey!" Star shouted as she got up in the android's face. "That's my line!"
But the Edenite turned her head away and coolly pushed the human away from her. "Not my fault you're too slow."
Star clenched her fist as she grit her teeth, and for a moment, it looked like the two women would have a throwdown right there, but they both paused and glanced to the side as another arrived.
Karasawa seemed to appear a little too easily as he reached up and dusted off the shoulder of his white business suit, completely unblemished. "Sorry I'm late," he apologized with an air of insincerity. "It takes time to clean up the messes of others."
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Post by raptorman on Feb 1, 2010 15:19:58 GMT -5
The lord and lady looked at Karasawa with some surprise. They hadn't foreseen his coming and it came as a shock to them, though one they hid without much effort. For a moment they considered him and then shrugged. The more the merrier especially with one they had been planning for had departed.
"Welcome, We hope that you have heard what has been said already so that we do not have to repeat it again."
They looked back at star and spoke again. "We expect the others to aid in the defeating of the founder troops when they arrive. And curtesy of Eden we will have a fleet to fight the founder fleet. We who stand here must oppose Aloraster and we must defeat him"
Then one more thing, addressed towards everyone. "Any questions or ideas that would prove useful before we prepare for his arrival?"
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Post by Ninmast on Feb 2, 2010 0:41:25 GMT -5
It was Karasawa that raised his hand, having had ignored the surprise they had at his arrival and not deigning to explain how he had come to know of it, since he wasn't actually contacted.
"I think it would be best if I was granted any useable salvage recovered from what is left after we finish."
Master Zero crossed his arms and shook his head. "Forget it. The Carbons aren't getting any alien technology. It could prove more than their societies are prepared to handle responsibly."
"Ah," the human replied calmly, as if he had foreseen such a reply, "but knowing about them would better enable us to protect ourselves against them or similar threats should they ever arise, thus ensuring our further survival."
"That's what Eden is here for," the Purifier answered irritably as he glanced over at him. "That's our job, not yours."
"Inevitably, we will naturally reach the level required of us to reach to the stars," the kingpin explained. "We should be able to take care of ourselves come that time, or else we may find our first steps taking us over a precipice with no safety line. And Sigmacorp's facilities are the best-equipped in the world to reverse-engineer such technologies."
"All the more reason you shouldn't get them!" Master Zero answered tersely, looking away again. "And it's for Eden to decide when you are ready for that, not you."
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Post by raptorman on Feb 2, 2010 21:19:12 GMT -5
The lord and lady looked at each other and beneath the hoods their glowing green eyes rolled. This new comer was proving most troublesome, though they did know of him and could use him in the fight to come. For a moment they listened as Master Zero and Karasawa argued. Then the Lord's temper already strained by the events of the day finally snapped.
He lifted a hand and for a moment it seemed that he was going to lash out at the fools who persisted in arguing. Then he lowered his hand again. It was not fitting for the allies to battle. They would need all the help they could get.
"Listen you two, we can settle who gets salvage later. Just as we can settle the matter of eden later. The primary goal is defeating aloraster. Now we need to be prepared when he arrives. The question of salvage is irrelevant if Aloraster destroys us all."
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Post by Ninmast on Feb 2, 2010 22:16:51 GMT -5
"He won't," Master Zero answered directly with a scowl at the alien lord. "He will have the whole of the might of Eden breathing down his neck, and worse still for him, he'll be dealing with me."
Star arched a fine eyebrow at that, shifting her hip as she crossed her arms under her chest, tilting her head toward Quicksilver. "Your brother's still as arrogant as ever, huh?"
In response, the ninja just grinned cheerfully. "Zee just wouldn't be himself if there wasn't so much of him to go around."
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Post by raptorman on Feb 2, 2010 22:22:12 GMT -5
The lord and lady looked at Master Zero with exasperation. It seemed the edenite was completely incapable of understanding the situation. They decided they would try again but by this point they were truly sick of Master Zero.
"You fought an inquisitor, 1 inquisitor who was mortal and only drawing on a tiny part of Aloraster's power. Your underestimation of your foes will be your undoing."
The Lady turned towards Star as the Lord continued to speak to Master Zero. "You know what we speak of do you not. You felt his power even distilled for you can sense the energy. Was it not terrible?"
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Post by Ninmast on Feb 2, 2010 22:27:42 GMT -5
Instead of answering the lord's statement, Master Zero turned to Star to view her response.
Not wanting to make light of the situation, but not wanting to lie, either, Star bought herself time by letting her eyes roam over the city behind them, idly scratching behind her ear as if she might uncover the answer there. "Well, it was pretty bad," she hesitantly admitted, "but pretty bad is pretty much the order of the day here. It's like I told the Captain. We deal with absurdly powerful antagonists on a disturbingly frequent basis."
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Post by raptorman on Feb 2, 2010 22:35:28 GMT -5
"Then take what you felt and increase it thousands fold and you have something more like what he truly is. You have fought many foes throughout your time on this world and your experience will be useful, as will your power. But you must not underestimate him, fighting things that gave off the power of evil itself does not mean that a force that is not maliciously evil does not possess true power." The Lord nodded as the Lady spoke.
"We encountered him directly once. With the greatest of our race at our sides. We are all who remain. The other slaughtered by him, himself. We too can defeat the inquisitors without trouble. But When he arrives we had best be ready and cease our incesent fighting."
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Post by Ninmast on Feb 2, 2010 23:22:44 GMT -5
"Oh, that?" Star asked concerning the fighting and promptly waved it off. "Don't worry about that. When the real battle starts, you won't even know we'd had any arguments."
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Post by raptorman on Feb 3, 2010 17:48:11 GMT -5
"Well since it will be as if we never fought, why don't we just not fight and save ourselves the trouble. Work out salvage arrangements after Aloraster is defeated. Now when aloraster arrives it is best if we can confront him before he can land and begin to feed. He will be able to tap into the life streams from close proximity even in space but the amount will be much less than if we fought him here."
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Post by Ninmast on Feb 4, 2010 9:44:33 GMT -5
"On his ship, then," Master Zero nodded. "That's not a problem. Anything else?"
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Post by raptorman on Feb 4, 2010 19:24:45 GMT -5
*Las Vegas*
"That should be all, though now we need to finish cleaning up the remaining founders who have landed and prepare to confront aloraster. We have a little more than 2 days now to prepare. We will meet here once again in 2 days time and then we must confront aloraster as he arrives."
During the next 2 days the forces of earth and the powers that dwelt upon it fought against and with concerted effort crushed the last of the founder scouts landing zones. But this was only to be the beginning.
At the end of the second day an ominous occurrence began massive gates of silver energy seemed to appear in the space above the planet. A massive armada ships began to emerge from the gates. Several ships nearly the size of the earths moon. And one ship even more massive. The Flag ship of Aloraster appeared amongst them. The massive ship however was not fast moving and it slowly began to crawl towards earth. Aloraster would land upon the earth and he would feed upon it's life streams.
The Founder forces aboard the other ships and those aboard the flag ship prepared themselves. This was the true invasion and now there were far more of them, and far more well prepared and powerful ones. It was nearly time for them to launch.
*Las Vegas*
The Lord and lady stood anxiously waiting for the return of the others. They could sense Aloraster's presences like a malevolent hunger pulling at the life of the world. There would not be much time and they had to stop him.
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